Gravy Quotes

72 Gravy quotes by 64 unique authors

What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary… — Garrison Keillor
Happiness is getting a brown gravy stain on a brown dress. — Totie Fields
Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with… — Mary McCarthy
Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. Said to have been written as a schoolboy during a chemistry… — E. C. Bentley
Gravy is the simplest, tastiest, most memory-laden dish I know how to make: a little flour, salt and pepper, crispy bits of whatever meat anchored… — Dorothy Allison
The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something… — Patrick Carney
If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride. — Patricia Clarkson
A lot of things went incredibly well for 'Scrubs': from a ridiculous number of downloads on the iPods, to whenever they issue a new season… — John C. McGinley
All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have.… — David Heyman
There's a turkey shortage. Are you aware of that fact? There's also a gravy shortage. It's up to $4 a gallon. Governor Chris Christie wants… — David Letterman
Some get the gravy, some get the gristle. — Joni Mitchell
I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years… — Whoopi Goldberg
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of… — Bette Davis
I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to… — Anne Lamott
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship. — Sydney Smith
You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy… — Charles Dickens
A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits… — Mark Twain
She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with, she decided, that was it. She'd been given a can of gravy… — Lorrie Moore
Her life her life had taken on the shape of a terrible mistake. She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life… — Lorrie Moore
Many couples permit their marriages to become stale and their love to grow cold like old bread or worn-out jokes or cold gravy. These people… — Spencer W. Kimball
Get me a gun. If I don't go into labor soon, I'm going to shoot myself. And pass the gravy. Pass it now." Valerie -… — Janet Evanovich
The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were the flat, thin… — Irving Stone
and I spilled gravy on my Carolina sweater, because I am alive, — Chuck Klosterman
Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such… — Iris Murdoch
Joe gave me some more gravy. — Charles Dickens

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